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VGP - Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan arrived in New Delhi, India, on December 8 (local time), beginning the official visit to India at the invitation of Senate President Mohammad Hamid Ansari and Speaker of the Lower House Sumitra Mahajan.

VGP – A high-ranking Vietnamese delegation, led by National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan will pay an official visit to India from December 8-11 at the invitation of Indian Chairman of the Senate Mohammad Hamid Ansari and Speaker of the 16th Lok Sabha Sumitra Mahajan.

VGP – Deputy PM, FM Pham Binh Minh and Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday signed an agreement on visa exemption for holders of official passports on the occasion of President Hassan Rouhani’s State visit to Viet Nam from October 5-7.

The U.N. human rights chief on Tuesday called a suicide bombing outside the Prophet Mohammad's Mosque in the Saudi city of Medina an attack on Islam itself and many Muslims expressed shock that their second-holiest site had been targeted.

The Afghan Taliban have named a deputy to former leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour as their new leader, a spokesman said in a statement on Wednesday, the group's first official confirmation that Mansour was killed in a U.S. drone strike.

Iran asked U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday to convince the United States to stop violating state immunity after the top U.S. court ruled that $2 billion in frozen Iranian assets must be paid to American victims of attacks blamed on Tehran.

International sanctions on Iran will be lifted on January 16 when the International Atomic Energy Agency issues its final report on Tehran's disputed nuclear program, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was quoted as saying.

A fireman of Algerian origin, Faisal helped evacuate thousands from the Stade de France during the Paris attacks, guiding panicked football fans to safety as suicide bombers blew themselves up outside.